This Land Was Mexican Once : : Histories of Resistance from Northern California / / Linda Heidenreich.

The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Chicana Matters
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: uses of stories and of history
  • Chapter 1 Precolonial stories/precolonial histories
  • Chapter 2 Stories of settler-colonizers, and of the colonized
  • Source break: bear flag narratives
  • Chapter 3 The bear flag incident
  • Chapter 4 Stories and histories of women and violence in the colonial north
  • Source break: the white mind
  • Chapter 5 Mobilizing linear narratives
  • Source break: civilized man
  • Chapter 6 Raced bodies in white spaces
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • INDEX